2009Q3 Reports: Program Chairs

This year, we received a record number of 925 valid
paper submissions -- a 24% submission increase over ACL-08: HLT --
with 569 full papers and 356 short papers. The significant
submission increase shows how vigorous our field is.

20 Area Chairs worked with 489 Program Committee members and 85 additional
reviewers to come up with 2,551 reviews, in total, for the final
paper selection. 21% of the full paper submissions are accepted;
all of these will be presented orally. 26% of the short paper
submissions are accepted; some of these will be presented orally
and some will be given as poster presentations. While short papers
are distinguished from full papers in the proceedings, there is no
distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented
orally and those presented as poster presentations.
Furthermore, the short-paper posters are clustered together by
topic and assigned poster numbers, to provide better information
access for the audience and easier logistics for the Local
Arrangements Committee.

Submissions and acceptances by areas
are as following:

Full papers

#sub

#accepted

Phonology/morphology, POS tagging and chunking, Word Segmentation

31

8 (26%)

Syntax and Parsing

49

14(29%)

Semantics

67

14(21%)

Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics

43

9 (21%)

Summarization and Generation

44

8 (18%)

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

40

6 (15%)

Machine Translation

82

23(28%)

Information Retrieval

28

4 (14%)

Information Extraction

49

10(20%)

Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification

45

7 (16%)

Spoken Language Processing

19

6 (32%)

Question Answering

25

3 (12%)

Text Mining and NLP Applications

21

4 (19%)

Language Resource

26

4 (15%)

Total

569

120(21%)

Short papers

#sub

#accepted

Phonology/morphology, POS tagging and chunking, Word Segmentation

16

4 (25%)

Syntax and Parsing

28

8 (29%)

Semantics

33

9 (27%)

Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics

21

7 (33%)

Summarization and Generation

24

8 (33%)

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

21

7 (33%)

Machine Translation

57

13(23%)

Information Retrieval

26

4 (15%)

Information Extraction

26

5 (19%)

Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Text Classification

44

13(30%)

Spoken Language Processing

16

5 (31%)

Question Answering

25

3 (25%)

Text Mining and NLP Applications

16

3 (19%)

Language Resource

16

4 (25%)

Total

356

93(26%)

The geographical distribution of the first authors of all
submissions is shown below. We received submissions from 41
countries: about 51% from 20 countries in Asia
Pacific, 27% from Canada, Cuba and the United States, 22% from 15
countries in Europe, less than 1% from Argentina and one anonymous submission.

The best (student) papers will be announced at the end of
the conference. This will allow time for the decision
process, which involves soliciting suggestions from the area
chairs, and forming a committee to read and judge the camera ready
papers.